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Belay :: Belay (v. t.) To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.

Blockish :: Blockish (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

Blockade :: Blockade (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

Saddle :: Saddle (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar..

Block :: Block (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.

Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

Doorstop :: Doorstop (n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door..

Run :: Run (v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block..

Match :: Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold..

Noodle :: Noodle (n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging..

Broach :: Broach (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool..

Fish-tackle :: Fish-tackle (n.) A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) A house of squared logs.

Lizard :: Lizard (n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

Drum :: Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

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